Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just about the time freshmen oarsmen "begin to think that rowing five or six days a week in exhausting workouts might not be their cup of tea, they are quickly sequestered off to some room in the upstairs of the Union for dinner and some home crew movies. Inevitably a film about Red Top pops...
...Continental now cost at least $50 a night, v. as low as $35 18 months ago. A modest dinner for two in Switzerland-cheese fondue and a bottle of wine-can run to $30. In Paris, peaches from Southern France sell for the equivalent of $8 each, and a cup of coffee rarely costs less than...
...since the bumbling New York Mets turned into instant folk heroes in 1969 has the sports world witnessed anything so surprising as the New York Islanders' inspired dash through the Stanley Cup play-offs this year. After first knocking off the Rangers, their haughty New York cousins, and then churning back from a three-games-to-none deficit against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the young, spirited Islanders very nearly upset the league's defending champions, the Flyers...
...like the Agassiz Cup celebration, it was carried on with a certain quiet bravado, even in defiance of what many people might think of as reflex reactions to human events. Apart from his consulting work for AID--which kept...
...first day, about "the end of those summers in Saigon." In the burgeoning New England spring, Saigon seemed very far away. It seemed more appropriate to remember smaller-scale settings for imperturbability in the face of exciting or famous or upsetting people or events--the Agassiz Cup celebration, say, or the Kirkland House dinner two years ago at which Smithies gave President Bok a long, pointed introduction, replete with references to "the days when the University was interested in education--before the present administration took office." ("These occasions can get very stolid if you don't liven...